A good article – and it is rewarding to see reasoned and polite responses unlike which appear to dominate other sites

Watch the dvd "Hot Air - the politics of NZ climate change" and you will see the several big corporations that got in behind National to kill any action. Also note some of our 'rich list' who have made millions at the taxpayers expense while doing so. Build from the grass roots up is my suggestion, join the likes of the Transition Movement. As Buckminster Fuller said ""You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing system obsolete.”

Temperature talk can be ambiguous. First there is surface temperature and there is sea temperature. To date some 96% of the temperature has been absorbed in the sea and temperature graphs show a constant increase. So that is the main one. Surface temperatures are up and down but trending up - and the denier industry likes to use this one but they cherry pick a period that suits them - eg 2008 was a very high year so they just cherry pick the from 2008 onwards. That is the same as saying people are getting shorter because the tallest man in the world died in 2008. Hope that helps